Security Engineer

Check Point

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At a glance

Compensation
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Location
Houston, TX
Work Authorization
Not specified

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Job overview

The Security Engineer works with the sales team to identify prospects and demonstrate Check Point’s security solutions. The role educates customers, prospects, and partners about security challenges and solutions, leads customer meetings, answers technical questions, manages Proof-of-Concepts, responds to RFI and RFP requests, and participates in cybersecurity events. The candidate brings engineering and pre-sales experience, network understanding, and the ability to design end-to-end security solutions.

Skills & qualifications

RequiredNice to have

Skills

Cyber SecurityPresalesAnalytical ThinkingProblem SolvingInterpersonal CommunicationsPresentationsNetwork SecurityNetwork UnderstandingEnd-to-End Security Solution DesignCommunicationPresentation

Qualifications

8+ Years Engineering and Pre-Sales ExperienceCCNP or CISSP or CCSA or CCSEUS Work Authorization Without Sponsorship

Full job description

Why Join Us?

Why Join Us At Check Point, what you do matters. Every day, we protect over 100,000 organizations worldwide from increasingly sophisticated cyber and AI-driven threats, securing their AI transformation. Our prevention-first approach safeguards hybrid networks, cloud environments, digital workspaces, and AI systems, stopping attacks before they happen. This is where innovation meets real-world impact. You’ll help customers across industries operate with confidence in a rapidly changing digital world, working alongside smart, curious people who take ownership, challenge assumptions, and solve complex problems. We’re proud to be recognized by TIME, Newsweek, and Forbes for excellence and workplace culture. What really sets Check Point apart is the opportunity to grow, contribute, and help companies navigate their AI transformation securely. If you’re excited to work at the forefront of AI-driven security on a global scale, this is the place to do it.

Key Responsibilities

You will be responsible for

  • Work closely with the sales team to identify prospects
  • Demonstrate our full portfolio of solutions that help keep organizations safe from threats and protect their operations and information
  • Educate customers, prospects and partners on the diversity of technical, operational and business challenges many organizations face and how Check Point solutions can solve them
  • Drive meetings with potential and existing customers to identify their problems and provide appropriate solutions
  • Address technical questions, offer insight into best practices and manage Proof-of-Concepts
  • Respond to RFI's & RFP's
  • Engage and educate key partners and customers on the latest security technologies
  • Active participation in cybersecurity events

Qualifications

What you bring to the table

  • 8+ years of engineering and pre-sales experience
  • Possess strong analytical and problem-solving skills
  • Good understanding of typical customers networks
  • Ability to create an end-to-end security solution for a customer’s environment
  • Excellent communication and presentation skills
  • Relevant certifications highly preferred,1 e.g. CCNP / CISSP/ CCSA / CCSE
  • Must be eligible to work in the US without sponsorship from an employer now or in the future

EOE M/F/Veterans/Disabled

How this job compares

Set against the 4,055 open Security Engineer jobs on Olive Jobs, counted October 29, 2026.

Pay
  • This postingNot listed
  • Texas median$130–202K/yr183 salary ranges
  • US median$60–72/hr79 hourly ranges
Openings
Olive Jobs lists 274 open Security Engineer jobs in Texas and 4,055 across the US. 8% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
Hiring the most in Texas
Experience
This posting asks for at least 8 years of experience; Security Engineer postings that state a minimum ask for 5 years at the median (3,500 postings).
Education
1,547 of the 4,055 open Security Engineer jobs (38%) ask for a bachelor's degree or higher.

Counted across the open, public US postings on Olive Jobs on October 29, 2026. Pay medians are the middle values of the low ends and of the high ends of postings that list both ends of a range in the same cadence (a yearly salary or an hourly rate); a range's midpoint is halfway between its ends. Pay and experience figures resting on fewer than 20 postings are left out.

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